Silverlight Out of Browser technology and WPF ClickOnce on the surface have similarities. Easy and simple deployment, the ability to specify the level of trust access to the underlying host, etc. What are the key issues I need to consider when choosing one over the other? To put a finer point on it, I'll be deploying LOB apps on a corp...
Is it possible to deploy a XAP using a custom installer (much like deploying a desktop app), and configure it to run as OOB with Elevated permissions? Bottomline is, when the app is started, it should run in Elevated permissions + OOB, with out any user intervention at all after the installation. ...
When you are using out of browser in silverlight are you trapped into a single window or can you open a second window? ...
I have a SL 4.0 app running out of browser with full priviliges. How can I check for updates (CheckAndDownloadUpdateAsync()) every 10 minutes without affecting UI thread. I've tried using the Timer, but the CheckAndDownloadUpdateCompleted doesn't get executed. I think it is erroring out silently. Thanks in advace... ...
Summary: I want the prettiness of Silverlight/WPF in part of my current Winforms application. The application can only have access to the full .NET Framework 2.0, no more and no less. The only possibility I can think of is a Silverlight OOB application that utilizes Com+ Automation but I can't figure out how to attach the Silverlight a...
Silverlight Out-of-browser applications get installed to a seemingly random location: AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\Silverlight\OutOfBrowser\2333572144.www.microsoft.com for example. Currently, I am simply storing this path, which works perfectly well on a single machine and a single install, but how can I refer to this application betwe...
Ok, here is the situation. I would like to deploy a silverlight application to an enterprise portal. Users will access the application by logging in to the portal and navigating to the page where it is hosted. That's the easy part. This silverlight 4 application is designed to be run in Out of Browser mode (OOB). My question is, is ...
Should the loading of OnDemand Prism modules work in an OOB scenerio? If so, I cannot seem to make it work. Everything is currently working in browser without any problems. Specifically I: register my modules in code: protected override IModuleCatalog GetModuleCatalog() { var catalog = new ModuleCatalog(); Uri source...
I'm planning to build a download manager application and would like to be able to launch the application when a user clicks a button the site. The application would obviously already need to be installed on the client machine. There are a few reasons why this needs to be written using Silverlight, but they're not really relevant to the...
Hello, After a user installs a silverlight app out of the browser, can they copy the application to another computer? If so, are there any good strategies to avoid this? Thank you. ...
I'm trying to launch a SL4 OOB application from the web browser. I'm currently trying to achieve this by associating a file type with sllauncher.exe and then adding the SL4 OOB application id as a parameter. The SL4 OOB application is launched when the specific file type is downloaded from the browser, but in order for me to create an in...
Hi all, I have a working web application which I want to use as OOB; However, when I install it, all I get is a blank screen and nothing more... I also tried without any javascript or HtmlPage.Methods invokes, but still the same Please help ...
Hello, Let's say we have a JavaScript class: function toy() { this.hello = function(msg) { alert('how are you? ' + msg); } } In Silverlight in-browser mode, we can use HtmlWindow.CreateInstance to create an instance of JavaScript class and get the ScriptObject, like below: var toyScriptObject = htmlWindow.CreateInsta...
Hi, I have a working Silverlight 4 application, also working in OOB mode; Here are two scenarios: When I Run Web version together with OOB version OOB is working properly, server methods as well Run OOB application only OOB is starting, but server methods are not working ! Please help... ...
Hi all; I have an SL 4 application (with OOB and elevated privileges) which makes a connection to a secure WCF service. But WCF service is never called, the application waits to connect and afterwards timeouts. I have checked with fiddler and wireshark and I saw no connection is made, application just waits! As you know if elevated priv...
Hello, In olden days of MFC and WinForms applications, you could register a file type with your application, and then double clicking that type of file in windows explorer would open that file in your application. I have a situation where I need to implement the same for an out of browser silverlight application, but I am unable to find...
In Visual Studio 2010 I've created a Silverlight app by choosing the "Silverlight Business Application" template. I changed some code in Home.xaml.cs, closed Visual Studio, opened it again, and began making more changes. But now the changes that I make to the code don't take effect at all. It's as if the entire application is cached. I...
Does anyone have any experience or suggestions for providing basic licensing support for a Silverlight 4 application? I'm especially interested in the case where the application is running out-of-browser. I'd like to be able to provide some sort of time-limited licensing option in this case. One option I've considered is implementing s...
I need to invoke office communicator to create a chat window and phone call directly from Silverlight when running out of browser. When running in browser I do this and it works pretty well: System.Windows.Browser.HtmlPage.Window.Eval(String.Format("window.open(\"sip:{0}\", target=\"_self\");", sip)); When running out of browser as f...
Hi all, In a Silverlight 4 out of browser app (oob) is there any way to programatically move the main window after the application start-up event. The reason / Use case: A user selects an option on a silverlight desktop gadget app, the apps window grows to accomodate extra details. If the app started very near the right of the screen t...